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Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 129, aired 7/30/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 129, aired 7/30/13

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Let’s Active, Ramones, Echo & The Bunnymen, Johnny Marr, Joe Jackson, Kate Bush, XTC, Grant Hart, The Cure, Crowded House, The B-52s, Elvis Costello and The Roots, Pop Will Eat Itself and more.

Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ box set to feature 70 ‘remastered, remixed, rare, unreleased, live’ tracks

Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ box set to feature 70 ‘remastered, remixed, rare, unreleased, live’ tracks

Universal Music today announced that the forthcoming 20th anniversary reissue of Nirvana’s third and final album, 1993’s In Utero, will be released in multiple formats on Sept. 24, including a 3CD/1DVD “Super Deluxe Edition” box set that will feature more than 70 “remastered, remixed, rare, unreleased and live recordings.”

Modern English announces short tour along East Coast of U.S. this August

Modern English announces short tour along East Coast of U.S. this August

Reunited post-punk/New Wave rockers Modern English — original members Robbie Grey (vocals), Gary McDowell (guitar), Mick Conroy (bass) and Stephen Walker (keyboards), plus guitarist Steven Walker and drummer Ric Chandler — have announced a nine-date tour of the East Coast for late August.

The Cure to perform in Mexico between Austin City Limits appearances this October

The Cure to perform in Mexico between Austin City Limits appearances this October

The Cure will return to Mexico — site of the band’s epic 4-hour, 50-song performance in an earthquake-rattled stadium on Robert Smith’s birthday this past April — for an arena concert in Monterrey on Oct. 8, the first date to emerge between the band’s headlining slots at the two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Debbie Harry denies reports she’s planning to end Blondie: ‘No plans to stop working’

Debbie Harry denies reports she’s planning to end Blondie: ‘No plans to stop working’

Debbie Harry took to Twitter last night to shoot down reports in the U.K. press that she was planning to retire from music next year, thereby ending Blondie following the release of its next album, which is expected out this year. Not so, Harry tweeted: “No plans to stop working, don’t believe everything you read.”

Alison Moyet to play San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York this November

Alison Moyet to play San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York this November

When former Yazoo frontwoman Alison Moyet this past February announced an extensive U.K. tour in support of her new album the minutes, she warned she had “no plans at this stage for tour dates beyond these,” a disappointment to fans in the U.S. and elsewhere. It seems, though, she’s had a change of plans.

New releases: Big Country ‘At the BBC’ box set, plus Birthday Party, Icehouse, The Cult

New releases: Big Country ‘At the BBC’ box set, plus Birthday Party, Icehouse, The Cult

This week’s new releases include the new ‘At the BBC’ 3CD/1DVD box set and 2CD highlights collection from Big Country, plus the vinyl reissue of The Birthday Party’s ‘Live 1981-82,’ a new collection of 12-inch mixes from Icehouse and the U.K. release of The Cult’s ‘Electric Peace’ 2CD set.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/28/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/28/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Christian Death, Skinny Puppy, David Bowie, Dalis Car, The Lucy Show, The Sisters of Mercy, Psi Com,. The Danse Society, KMFDM, The Smiths, The Gun Club, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Cure and much, much more.

Bernard Sumner breaks leg, is ‘unable to give it my all’ — but New Order not scrubbing tour

Bernard Sumner breaks leg, is ‘unable to give it my all’ — but New Order not scrubbing tour

With New Order about halfway through a short North American tour, frontman Bernard Sumner today announced on the band’s website that he has suffered a fractured leg, and while he says he is in pain on stage and “physically unable to give it my all,” the group is not canceling the remainder of its tour.

Video: Nine Inch Nails at Fuji Rock Festival ’13 — watch full 90-minute webcast

Video: Nine Inch Nails at Fuji Rock Festival ’13 — watch full 90-minute webcast

Nine Inch Nails’ full 90-minute set at Fuji Rock Festival ’13 — which saw the live debut of current single “Came Back Haunted” and the world premieres of two other songs off the forthcoming Hesitation Marks (“Copy of A,” “Find My Way”) — has hit the web, thanks to YouTube user mikezak4.

The Week in Rock: July 21-27, 2013

The Week in Rock: July 21-27, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about Grant Hart of Husker Du, Pixies, New Order, Public Image Ltd., Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, The House of Love, New Model Army, Prefab Sprout, Kitchens of Distinction and more.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we travel back to June 23, 1991, for an episode built around MTV’s “120 Minutes Naked Power Grab” contest, which offered one lucky viewer the chance to be “president” of Mute Records for a week. Here’s 12 minutes of footage from the episode featuring the winner and DM.

Video: New Order plays ‘Love Vigilantes,’ ‘Regret’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

Video: New Order plays ‘Love Vigilantes,’ ‘Regret’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

New Order is in the midst of its second short run of U.S. dates this year, and, just as Bernard Sumner did this past spring when they stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the band using the opportunity this time to once again perform on network television. This time the group dropped in on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”